Oxford made the decision to build its own site rather than share with another institution, because it has to retain all its LD
books in perpetuity, so can't collaborate in any «last copy» retention schemes.
So now they're doomed to collect 14.9 % royalties on
those books in perpetuity.
I suspect the notion of authors giving away
their books in perpetuity seems so weird to Amazon that it never really occurred to them.
Not exact matches
But the ability to market your
book, and market it digitally, is necessary territory... even if you go through a conventional publisher (who is unlikely to set up your author website, ghost - blog on your behalf
in perpetuity or manage your social media accounts).
But the ability to market your
book, and market it digitally, is necessary territory... even if you go through a conventional publisher (who is unlikely to set up your author website, ghost - blog on your behalf
in perpetuity or manage your
To add some bigger - picture perspective, Macmillan and Simon & Schuster have yet to offer libraries their
books in the ebook format at all, and other publishers are continuing the longstanding policy of allowing libraries to purchase ebooks
in perpetuity.
I am * not * happy to let a third party site archive my
books for free
in perpetuity where the
books can be downloaded at will
in a search archive by anyone and everyone with access to a search engine.
For example, as Helen Sedwick's and Orna Ross's recent
book How Authors Sell Publishing Rights says, «Within most trade - publishing contracts -LSB-...] the publishing house will request [rights
in]
perpetuity, unless the
book goes out of print, which rarely occurs
in the POD / e-
book era.»
About the only difference is the «
in perpetuity,» as
books have natural physical lives.
Because, today's publishing can hold your
book hostage
in perpetuity due to the print on demand model.
Your Author and
Book GamePlan doesn't have to go on
in perpetuity.
So rights could be held
in perpetuity when the
book is selling only two or three copies a month.
He makes the great point that the time is coming for a flat price for a
book, both digital and physical, to be yours
in perpetuity.
Because digital can keep
books «alive»
in perpetuity — which seems a great thing, of course — that does mean that contemporary writers» work comes up against an ever expanding field of never - out - of - print content.
But with so many traditional publishers now wanting e-rights and POD rights
in perpetuity for hardly any royalties (even for older
books where e-rights were never mentioned
in the contract because they didn't exist), I don't agree even for fiction any more.
But with so many traditional publishers now wanting e-rights and POD rights
in perpetuity for hardly any royalties (even for older
books where e-rights were never mentioned
in the contract), I don't agree even for fiction any more.
In an open letter to librarians explaining its switch to limit the number of check - outs a library can offer on an e-book, HarperCollins said that its previous policy of «selling e-books to libraries in perpetuity, if left unchanged, would undermine the emerging e-book eco-system, hurt the growing e-book channel, place additional pressure on physical bookstores, and in the end lead to a decrease in book sales and royalties paid to authors.9 Similarly, Simon & Schuster's executive vice president and chief digital officer Elinor Hirschhorn says that the company does not make its e-books available to libraries at all because «[w] e're concerned that authors and publishers are made whole by library e-lending and that they aren't losing sales that they might have made in another channel.&raqu
In an open letter to librarians explaining its switch to limit the number of check - outs a library can offer on an e-
book, HarperCollins said that its previous policy of «selling e-books to libraries
in perpetuity, if left unchanged, would undermine the emerging e-book eco-system, hurt the growing e-book channel, place additional pressure on physical bookstores, and in the end lead to a decrease in book sales and royalties paid to authors.9 Similarly, Simon & Schuster's executive vice president and chief digital officer Elinor Hirschhorn says that the company does not make its e-books available to libraries at all because «[w] e're concerned that authors and publishers are made whole by library e-lending and that they aren't losing sales that they might have made in another channel.&raqu
in perpetuity, if left unchanged, would undermine the emerging e-
book eco-system, hurt the growing e-
book channel, place additional pressure on physical bookstores, and
in the end lead to a decrease in book sales and royalties paid to authors.9 Similarly, Simon & Schuster's executive vice president and chief digital officer Elinor Hirschhorn says that the company does not make its e-books available to libraries at all because «[w] e're concerned that authors and publishers are made whole by library e-lending and that they aren't losing sales that they might have made in another channel.&raqu
in the end lead to a decrease
in book sales and royalties paid to authors.9 Similarly, Simon & Schuster's executive vice president and chief digital officer Elinor Hirschhorn says that the company does not make its e-books available to libraries at all because «[w] e're concerned that authors and publishers are made whole by library e-lending and that they aren't losing sales that they might have made in another channel.&raqu
in book sales and royalties paid to authors.9 Similarly, Simon & Schuster's executive vice president and chief digital officer Elinor Hirschhorn says that the company does not make its e-books available to libraries at all because «[w] e're concerned that authors and publishers are made whole by library e-lending and that they aren't losing sales that they might have made
in another channel.&raqu
in another channel.»
A selective survey of the existing environment reveals the following: law society libraries have a national resource sharing agreement; however, it doesn't include interlibrary loans of
books or other print materials, and there is no formal agreement relating to what collections any particular library will maintain
in perpetuity for the support of the others.
They agreed to recognize one another's publication rights
in perpetuity, and no
books in the realm fell outside their grasp.